Morel (vaudevillist)

Morel (before 1783 – 1802), was a French 18th–19th-century playwright and writer of Comédie en vaudevilles. His first name has always been unknown.

Morel's short career may suggest that he was the pseudonym of a more famous author unidentified to date. Joseph-Marie Quérard in his 1834 book La France Littéraire writes "MOREL, died in 1802, aged 19" with no further information and Léon Thiessé in his Essai biographique et littéraire "We have named Morel, who died in 1802 aged twenty-one from a chest disease, who left some nice songs, and a political work almost unknown".

Works

 * 1799: Le Café des artistes, one-act Comédie en vaudeville, with Charles-Guillaume Étienne and Charles Gaugiran-Nanteuil
 * 1799: L'intérieur d'un comité révolutionnaire, ou les jacobins, par moi
 * 1799: Les Dieux à Tivoli, ou l'Ascension de l'Olympe, folie non fastueuse, arlequinade, impromptu in 1 act and vaudevilles, with Charles-Guillaume Étienne, Francis baron d'Allarde and Joseph Servières
 * 1799: Rembrandt, ou la Vente après décès, vaudeville anecdotique en 1 acte, with Étienne and Servières
 * 1800: Jacasset, ou la Contrainte par corps, comedy in 1 act and in prose, with Philibert
 * 1801: Colombine toute seule, scène-parade, mingled with comédies en vaudeville, with Joseph Marty and Philibert
 * 1801: Quel est le plus ridicule ? ou La Gravure en action, one-act folie-vaudeville, with Étienne Crétu with Étienne Gosse